The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
How to Make Candy.

Dear Young Folks:-Girls, how
would you like to know about making
candy? l made some before Christ
mas and it was great success.
bought some pretty little boxes and
filled them with my homemade candies
of four different kinds, and such praise
as came back to mel | was almost
ashamed to be so much praised when
had done so little to be praised for. 1t
seemed remarkable, perhaps, to receive
as nice box of candies at Christmas
as any of the girls could buy at the
very best confectioner's store, but it
wasn't really remarkable, as you will
say when you have made some your
self. l will explain it all as clearly as
l can. In the first place buy pound
of confectioner's sugar; perhaps you
had better have pound and quar-
ter, because the pound may not make
the candy quite stiff enough. You
will, of course, have an egg in the
house. Then you must have a pound
of English walnuts and half pound of
prunes or dates, as you like. Have the
nuts well opened before you begin.
Perhaps some one will show you how
come out in halves. If they should
break you can patch them together
with the sugar, but they won't look so
nice. Have the stones taken out of
the prunes or dates, and then you will
be all ready to begin with the sugar.
Break the white of one egg into tum-
bier, so that you can see exactly how
much it is; then turn it into a good
sized bowl Add exactly as much cold
water to it as the measure in the tum-
bier of the egg; put this with the egg
and add about a half tea-spoonful of
vanilla. Now add the sugar gradually,
stirring and stirring and stirring until
you are about tired of it and have the
mixture so thick that you can scarcely
turn your spoon in it. Then take it
out of the bowl and put it on bread
board that you have sugared just as
cook flours the board for bread. Now
you knead this with your hands, and
knead and knead until you are about
as tired of it as in stirring before.
Take piece of this and roll it out in
your hands into long narrow strip, so
that you can cut it in pieces large
enough for the back of your nuts and
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smalD. If you want for variety that
the nut should be on both sides and
the sugar between, then have the fiat
piece you cut little thinner and be
sure you finish it off very smoothly all
around the edge of the nut. This
candy is simply delicious, if you make
it right. With the dates or prunes you
fill up the place of the stones with the
sugar and put the sides together over
it just as nicely as you have the nuts,
having the sugar show as border all
around, excepting where the sides were
not wholly separated when you took
out the stones. If you succeed in this
i will tell you of two other kinds of
candy, even easier than these and just
as nice. | think it would be fun if
some of you who tried making the
candy would send me one of a kind in
little bit of box, so that l could see
if it was like mine. | know the editor
and he would give me the box. The
other kinds of candy l can tell you
about are cocoanut and orange. The
last is just about as easy as nothing to
make, but as these two are made differ
ent from the others / thought | would
not mix them up, and gave you the
hardest first.-Mary Merry, IN the
Tribune.